We used to rent films through the mail with Blockbuster, which just closed, so my husband is signing up for Netflix. The first film I'm going to order is Mao's Last Dancer, adapted from the book, and a true story.

Here's one maybe you haven't heard about, it is my brother's favorite movie: Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive. I saw it today again... very beautiful.

"I once showed a dozen or so classic non-American films to students at the Royal College of Art. To my surprise, despite the fact that the list included the work of such world-renowned directors as Luis Buñuel, Satyajit Ray and Kenji Mizoguchi, the film they fell in love with was Victor Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive. They rightly thought it close to magic. It is one of the most beautiful and arresting films ever made in Spain, or anywhere in the past 25 years or so." - Derek Malcolm

The movie is now 39 years old

It takes place in a small town in Spain after the civil war. It is about a little girl, Ana (Ana Torrent). "She sees James Whale's Frankenstein, and is beguiled by it; it enters her imagination."